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This year (2024-2025) HMC is selling $60,000 of our labor to each of these defense contractors & National Defense Labs.
Computer Science Clinic Sponsors
ServiceNow
"ServiceNow is proud to work with the DoD to meet the challenges of today and build the foundation for a future-proof combat-ready military force" reads an informative pamphlet on their website.
On the last page of that pamphlet, in the section titled "INCREASE LETHALITY" ServiceNow lists ways they help the DoD "To be the most lethal combat force on the planet."
They go on to affirm that even though they don't produce weapons, the data they help manage is a "strategic resource that is as powerful as any tank or ammunition" that they use to "empowers warfighters in the field."
In their quarterly earnings meeting in Oct. 2023, ServiceNow CEO stated that “ServiceNow has a very special team in israel” before going on to discuss the company’s deal with the US Air Force “Our top deal in the quarter, the United States Air Force, was the third-largest deal in the company's history.”
ServiceNow is committed to empowering warfighters to do what they do best: war crimes.
Microsoft
Microsoft aims "to help power the next generation of technology for the Department of Defense (DoD)."
They advertise partnerships: "Lockheed Martin and Microsoft have entered a two-year collaborative research and development (R&D) program that will advance AI/ML and modeling and simulation capabilities for the DoD."
They advertise services: "The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract gives the DoD a faster, lower cost way to buy commercial cloud services at every classification and Impact Level. Microsoft Azure cloud technology is now directly available to all of DoD in one contract vehicle, empowering warfighters in connected and disconnected environments."
Microsoft is also one of few companies whose services are used to store Top Secret information.
You can learn more about "Microsoft for defense and intelligence" and the services they offer the DoD on their website. There's far too much to list here.
Read more by No Tech for Apartheid.
Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Three of their four main mission areas focus on "Deterrence" or "Threat Preparedness and Response". Within those areas, a main purpose is to "Create a global strategic advantage through innovative technologies, strategies and analyses to bolster escalatory and defensive capabilities across the full spectrum of domains including strategic defense, conventional strike, space, cyber and technology competition."
Their "Weapon Technologies and Engineering (WTE) program is the center of engineering and materials science efforts in support of the weapons program. WTE is responsible for ensuring that physics concepts materialize into realizable designs that reliably meet their military requirements."
LLNL also has a division dedicated to "Strategic Deterrence" that works on upgrading and maintaining America's nuclear weapons while simultaneously working to prevent any other country from developing nuclear weapons.
LLNL says "Nukes for me but not for thee."
CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike provides cybersecurity software and services to the DoD. "CrowdStrike secures some of the United States’ most critical assets within the DoD, Defense Industrial Base (DIB) entities, [and] Department of Homeland Security (DHS)."
They have also acquired 4 Israeli companies sine 2020: Reposify, Preempt Security, Bionic, and Flow Security, making "CrowdStrike [...] a target for Israeli venture capital funds looking to sell their investments." When they purchased Bionic, one investor even commented that "This deal is important because it is part of Israel's bread and butter. It strengthens CrowdStrike's presence in Israel."
CrowdStrike's Global Threat Report 2024 (p. 25-28) gives a remarkably Pro-Israel analysis and timeline of cyberwarfare occurring in relation to what they call the "Israel-Hamas Conflict."
The majority of CrowdStrike's acquisitions have been Israeli companies. They must love the taste of stolen land.
Laserfiche
Laserfiche has made it as easy as possible for their software "to be deployed to all branches of the Navy and Marine Corps around the world from a centralized location by the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI)."
Their CEO even stated that "The Navy will benefit from increased efficiency as they use Laserfiche in their very demanding computing environment."
They seem to specifically support the advancement of warfare because "The implementation of Laserfiche on NMCI will begin at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, IN. [...] By April 2006, the Crane warfare center alone will incorporate 2,200 users."
They weren't satisfied with serving other businesses. They just had to directly support American imperialism.
Engineering Clinic Sponsors
Sandia National Labs
Sandia's home page makes it clear that "Nuclear Weapons" and "Security" are two of their top priorities.
The fact that "Sandia designs more than 6,300 parts of a modern nuclear weapon’s 6,500 components," and that "Unlike other national labs, which focus on the physics package, Sandia’s work is to weaponize the physics package," makes Sandia Nuke-central for the US government.
"At the core of Sandia’s nuclear weapons program is warhead systems engineering and integration. It includes these products of weaponization: arming, fuzing and firing systems; neutron generators; gas transfer systems; and surety systems."
Weaponization is their primary purpose. They claim that "World-class scientists and engineers come to Sandia to conduct breakthrough research in nuclear weapons," but we can change that.
Blue Origin
In 2018, Blue Origin entered into a "partnership with the Air Force to leverage our commercial, heavy-lift New Glenn launch vehicle for national security space (NSS) missions."
In 2023, they got a new contract for "National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 2 early integration studies to assess launch vehicle trajectory and mission design, coupled launch loads, and integrated thermal environments to inform compatibility between launch vehicles and space vehicles" with the Space Force that will last until at least 2026.
Meanwhile, they are trying to "demonstrate Blue Ring’s mission operation capabilities and core flight systems on an upcoming Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)-sponsored launch" for the benefit of "The U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command's Assured Access to Space Mission Manifest Office."
Amazon Prime Air
Amazon's Project Nimbus helps to power "AI-assisted genocide" in Gaza. Amazon enables war crimes so horrendous that its employees are pushing back.
Amazon evidently expected resistance, because they "signed a contract with Israel guaranteeing the continuation of services in the event of a boycott campaign. To date, they have held firm and continue to supply Israel with cloud computing services."
Additionally, "employees have raised fears that [Project Nimbus] may be servicing Israel’s AI-infused military massacres. These concerns were amplified by reports that the Israeli army is using a new AI-powered system, such as 'Lavender' and 'The Gospel' to decide on targets for its bombardment of Gaza. According to one former Israeli intelligence official, The Gospel facilitates a 'mass assassination factory' where 'emphasis is on quantity, not quality'."
Read more at No Tech for Apartheid.
HRL Laboratories
The HRL Vision Systems Laboratory "primarily target infrared (IR) sensor products for aerospace and U.S. Department of Defense applications."
HRL boasts that "Leading-edge foundry capabilities like those at HRL are key to millimeter-wave applications such as fifth generation or 5G communications, satellite communications, electronic warfare, and radar," some of the DoD's favorite technologies.
They manufacture their products in their "US Department of Defense Trusted Foundry," where they are further developing technology for use by DARPA and the DoD.
HRL is currently working on a project for DARPA and they have two active DoD contracts that will last until at least 2028.